Heads and teachers of technical and vocational schools in Southern province have been urged to change their strategic plans from one year to five years strategic plans.
The move comes as a result of workshops organized by Workforce Development Authority through IPRC-South (WDA-IPRC-South) and Belgium Development Cooperation (BTC) training them on elaboration of strategic plans for technical and vocational schools
“The program was the formation of elaboration of strategic plans of technical and Vocational schools with the WDA and the program will be implemented in IPRC-South for further pedagogical competencies” Said Xavier Rosy, Technical Assistant in the Belgian Program of Support to Technical and Professional Training.
The principal of the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Centre (IPRC-South), Rudahunga Gédéon has said 11 pilot vocational centres were trained and the training will help them to design programmes responding to their needs while at the same time improving the quality of Education in technical and vocational centres.
“The programme will help them identify their needs. With information in place, means in place, there is a half of activities that can be implemented” noted Rudahunga
Speaking on the gaps of pedagogical materials, Mr. Xavier Rosy said that some of the schools are still facing the problem of infrastructure development, facilities to reduce the size of the pupils in a class among others adding that Belgium will fund professional schools in Rwanda using over 6 million Euros in a period of 4 years.
Mpigiye Norbert of Mugusa Vocational Training centres has said most challenging problems are teachers who leave the jobs looking for better payment elsewhere pointing out the low salary for Vocational Trainers.
“Taking example of a student that we have trained, when finished courses in our schools you cannot employ him due to the fact that he cannot agree our salary which is low comparing to what he is going to do outside” Mpigiye said.
“Another problem is that we struggle to teach pupils who have different level of studies; some with primary school level while others are secondary schools” He explained adding that all of these can affect the quality of education.
However, Ndahiro Andre in charge of the quality of Education in WDA said as far as the quality of education is concerned; the government is working closely with WDA to solve those problems.
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